Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Tspecisl Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzErrEl
WASHINGTON. D. c.. July %. 1851.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. July %. 1887.
Senators Butler and Hampton, of South
Carolina, who have been here for some days
uast. have returned to their homes. Sena-
tor Ransom, of North Carolina, will return
this afternoon They have oil obtained
somo more administration fayors, and are
all administration men, but, their TRENDS
say, not because they approve all tue al
ministration has done, but because most OF
the things it has done deserve appreciation.
Ex.Representative Barbour has closed up
all Of his accumulated correspondence, and
will now take country rest preparatory to
the arduous campaign it is probable ne Will
have to enter next fall.
A large delegation of perspiring people
from St Louis called upon the perspirlng
President, by appointment to-day, in the
library Of the White House, and invited
him to visit their city next fall, and to Sc
lect his own time for doing So 1t took
them about half an hour to deliver the ln-
vitation. In it they said, in elect, that
their city was the greatest in the country,
and they wanted the greatest President the
country ever had to visit it, and they prom
ised to give him the greatest reception that
was ever accorded any other PresldenI.
They were themselves received very warm
", and while their invitation was not for.
malv accepted, they seemed to be satisfied
that it would be, and that they would have
an opportunity of making their promise
good.
1t has now been discovered that Harvey,
the republican mugwump Treasury clerk,
did not confine his forgeries to horse claims,
but was also similarly engaged in pension
claims, and that all he wanted, to create
big bank account in Canada, and skip to
that hosptable country, was time. In the
period allowed him he did the best he could,
but as he is no Joshua his contest was
against fate, and defeat was therefore inevi-
table.
A project is on foot to have large military
drills and reviews near some of the larger
cities in different parts of the country regu-
lar every fall, in which the national troops
stationed in those sectionsandtheS tatetroops
therein shall take part the expense thereof
to be borne by the national government. 1t
is understood that bill to attain this object
will be introduced at the next session OF
Congress.
The treatment to which the President has
been subjected by tho G.. A. II. is most re.
markabe in Wow of his course toward that
organization He wont let one of them be
removed from Office; none but them in the
minor positions of the departments can be
promoted: they are not subject to the harsh
er provisions of the civil service law, and
they are always preferred for office. But
in addition TO all this, under Mr.Cleveland's
administration IS pensions have been in
creased to SO; $24 pensions TO $780, $50 pen.
sions to $50, aud S37 80 pensions to SO per
month us has apnoiuted more of them TO
Office than any of his predecessors. During
the first two years OF his administration
double the number, 1879, $50, pension certiii-
Gates were issued, and SIC, 6i7 ,000more paid
out for pensions than during the last two
wears of Mr. Arthur's term. During the
last year of the republican administration
3O3 Cos pensioners were on the rolls, but
now there are 402 600. and this, too though
the members of the G.. A. Il. are not i'm
mortal.
The bids for supplying the Senate with
fuel were opened this morning st the office
ofthe Sergeant alarms of the Senate. The
lowest bidder for white ash coal was John
Miller, fer red ash, Clarke Il Son, and for
both pine and oak wood. Mr. kilmon.
General Weaver, the greenback member
ofCongress from Iowa, is among the latest ar
rivals in the city, He says he has been ad-
dressing large greenback audiences in Penn
sylvania and New York. Gen. Weaver is
the single greenback democrat in the House
while Mr.. Brumm, Of Pennsylvania, is the
single greenback republican in that body.